Katy Perry gives a tour of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin capsule which will take her and 5 other women to space: ‘Taking Up Space is a double entendre now’

“I gotta sing in space,” she said. She also showed where her “girlfriends” would be sitting along with her in the capsule. “We are the Taking Up Space crew. Of course, that saying has had a different meaning to it. But now, for the first time ever, it’s a double entendre,” said Katy. An all-female spaceflight seems an apt endeavour for the 40-year-old pop star, whose collection of hits include songs about extra-terrestrials (E.T.) and fireworks shooting across the sky (Firework), as well as feminist anthems like her 2013 hit, Roar, and WOMAN’S WORLD, off her most recent album.

“I won’t say I can’t believe I’m here. I do believe it. I think that believing your dreams and saying that is actually how you make your dreams come true,” says Perry at the end of her video. She will join Jeff Bezos’ fiancée Lauren Sanchez, a helicopter pilot and former TV journalist, who picked the women who will join her on a 10-minute spaceflight from West Texas aboard a New Shepard rocket.

The other women joining them are  journalist Gayle Kin, Aisha Bowe, a former NASA rocket scientist who now heads an engineering firm, research scientist Amanda Nguyen, and movie producer Kerianne Flynn. It is the first all-female space crew since Valentina Tereshkova’s historic solo flight in 1963.

Perry recently told Elle magazine that she was taking part “for my daughter Daisy,” whom she shares with actor Orlando Bloom, “to inspire her to never have limits on her dreams.” “I’m just so excited to see the inspiration through her eyes and the light in her eyes when she sees that rocket go, and she goes back to school the next day and says ‘Mom went to space’,” Perry added.

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Lasting around 10 minutes, the flight will bring the passengers beyond the Karman line — the internationally recognized boundary of space. There will be a brief period when the women can unbuckle from their seats and float in zero gravity.

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